History of the Origin, Formation, and Adoption of the Constitution of the United States: With Notices of Its Principal Framers, Volume 2 |
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... Electors Construction of the Judiciary Admission of New States Completion of the Engagements of Congress Guaranty of Republican Governments Future Amendments Oath to Support the Constitution Ratification . Objects of a Popular ...
... Electors Construction of the Judiciary Admission of New States Completion of the Engagements of Congress Guaranty of Republican Governments Future Amendments Oath to Support the Constitution Ratification . Objects of a Popular ...
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... by the People . 388 Origin of the Plan of Electors Choice of President and Vice - President Succession of the Vice - President to the Presidency 389 390-395 395-398 Mode of filling the Vacancy when there is no Vice X CONTENTS .
... by the People . 388 Origin of the Plan of Electors Choice of President and Vice - President Succession of the Vice - President to the Presidency 389 390-395 395-398 Mode of filling the Vacancy when there is no Vice X CONTENTS .
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... Electors . Opening of the Votes of the Electors . 398 398 , 399 399 , 400 Modifications of the Mode of Election made by the Amendment 400 , 401 Contingency , for which no Provision is made Qualifications for the Presidency Salary of the ...
... Electors . Opening of the Votes of the Electors . 398 398 , 399 399 , 400 Modifications of the Mode of Election made by the Amendment 400 , 401 Contingency , for which no Provision is made Qualifications for the Presidency Salary of the ...
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... electors of the national legislature , would only perpetuate some of the worst evils of the Confederation . A decided majority of the States sustained the election of the first branch of the national legisla- ture by the people . Great ...
... electors of the national legislature , would only perpetuate some of the worst evils of the Confederation . A decided majority of the States sustained the election of the first branch of the national legisla- ture by the people . Great ...
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... electors of the executive , two States only recorded their votes in its favor , and eight States voted against it . By the vote of eight States it was then deter- mined that the executive should be elected by the national legislature ...
... electors of the executive , two States only recorded their votes in its favor , and eight States voted against it . By the vote of eight States it was then deter- mined that the executive should be elected by the national legislature ...
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Page 626 - The President shall, at stated times, receive for his services a compensation, which shall neither be encreased nor diminished during the period for which he shall have been elected, and he shall not receive within that period any other emolument from the United States, or any of them. Before he enter on the execution of his office he shall take the following oath or affirmation...
Page 628 - The Congress shall have Power to dispose of and make all needful Rules and Regulations respecting the Territory or other Property belonging to the United States ; and nothing in this Constitution shall be so construed as to Prejudice any Claims of the United States, or of any particular State. SECTION 4. The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion, and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive...
Page 457 - There shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in the said territory, otherwise than in the punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted : Provided always, That any person escaping into the same, from whom labor or service is lawfully claimed in any one of the original States, such fugitive may be lawfully reclaimed, and conveyed to the person claiming his or her labor or service as aforesaid.
Page 625 - The Congress may determine the Time of chusing the Electors, and the Day on which they shall give their Votes ; which Day shall be the same throughout the United States.
Page 88 - That each branch ought to possess the right of originating acts; that the National Legislature ought to be empowered to enjoy the legislative rights vested in Congress by the Confederation and moreover to legislate in all cases to which the separate states are incompetent, or in which the harmony of the United States may be interrupted by the exercise of individual legislation...
Page 620 - Years, in such Manner as they shall by Law direct. The Number of Representatives shall not exceed one for every thirty Thousand, but each State shall have at Least one Representative; and until such enumeration shall be made, the State of New Hampshire shall be entitled to chuse three, Massachusetts eight, Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations one, Connecticut five, New- York six, New Jersey four, Pennsylvania eight, Delaware one, Maryland six, Virginia ten, North Carolina five, South Carolina...
Page 622 - No Senator or Representative shall, during the Time for which he was elected, be appointed to any civil Office under the Authority of the United States, which shall have been created, or the Emoluments whereof shall have been encreased during such time ; and no Person holding any Office under the United States, shall be a Member of either House during his Continuance in Office.
Page 192 - ... Resolved, that all acts of the United States in Congress, made by virtue and in pursuance of the powers hereby, and by the Articles of Confederation, vested in them, and all treaties made and ratified under the authority of the United States, shall be the supreme law of the respective States, so far forth as those acts or treaties shall relate to the said States or their citizens ; and that the Judiciary of the several States shall be bound thereby in their decisions, any thing in the respective...
Page 615 - Whenever the legislative or executive authority or lawful agent of any state in controversy with another shall present a petition to congress stating the matter in question and praying for a hearing, notice thereof shall be given by order of congress to the legislative or executive authority of the other state in controversy, and a day assigned for the appearance of the parties by their lawful agents...
Page 449 - The better to secure and perpetuate mutual friendship and intercourse among the people of the different States in this Union, the free inhabitants of each of these States, paupers, vagabonds and fugitives from justice excepted, shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of free citizens in the several States...